Jackie Phamotse - Woman Crush Wednesday

Jackie Phamotse is the CEO of Brand Fanatics / Brand Manager to Artist Zano Urban and Father Figure SA Ambassador. She has caused a massive out break with her new Book Shattered Innocence. The Model turned Author shows off her hidden skills in writing a book that many have called “The holy grail of Morden Society” in less than 6 weeks of its release the book has politicians, music super stars and normal house wives begging for copies.

SHATTERED INNOCENCE looks into a lifestyle only the brave dreamt off. The fast lane of Sandtons rich, famous and a circle of Sugar Daddies. The main character Treasure goes through life with a pure soul but what the future hold was never planned. Leaving Westonaria to pursue a dream that only leads her to her own grave, a life that only takes and givesless. Fast cars, unlimited Sex and a friend that is glued to the cult of riches. 

All the way from USA Felicia Mabuza begged Jackie for a signed copy of Shattered Innocence on twitter in full view of over 10 000 followers. The book is available on Amazon and iBooks, get your copy now!

Random Act Of Kindness

It’s easy to act with kindness and understanding toward those who have been kind to you. Yet the real power of kindness comes when you give it even to those who don’t deserve it.

Acting with cruelty in response to cruelty only drags down everyone involved. With kindness, you have the opportunity to lift up yourself and others. Being kind does not mean allowing others to take advantage of you. On the contrary, your kindness can give you the positive, undeniable power to make sure that everyone’s best interests are served.

Yes, there are those who will not respond well to your kindness. Act toward them with kindness and understanding anyway, and even though they won’t benefit from your kindness, you yourself still will.

Think of your kindness toward others as a valuable gift you give mainly to yourself. If anyone else is enlightened enough to accept and appreciate it too, that makes it even better.

Find Your Purpose and Build Your Future

Basil Mabasa (28) From N’wamatatani Village, Limpopo

1 Peter 4:10 “Each of us, as a good manager of God’s different gifts, must use for the good of others the special gift he has received from God.” 

As a young person, it is important to continuously pause and reflect on our journey to see if we are using the talents that God gave us to the fullest. 6 years ago, I started my company Xisasi Group of Companies. The business was doing well and I was making all the right headlines. The world was looking at a great success story of a young village boy who is making a name for himself.  The first thing I would ask myself in the morning when I wake up was: Which client am I going to put a smile on their face today? I was loving the things I was doing and enjoying. To me this was what God wanted me to do. This was my purpose. 

 

Two years after the establishment of my business, I decided to start a foundation, Xisasi Cancer Foundation, which I named after my late mother who died because of Breast Cancer. When my mom passed away because of Cancer, I made a commitment with myself that I am going to start a cancer foundation one day when I am rich so that I can help more rural women. Three years down the line, I realized that I don’t have to be rich to start doing something for rural women. I used the little resources I have in registering a foundation and asking my friend to come and volunteer their time in running the foundation. I want to change the myth around Cancer. Many people think it’s a death sentence. And many are afraid to go and do different cancer diagnostic tests I started to be involved in community development issues. I started to be a champion in the lives of those less fortunate. I started to connect more with my people. I realized that the key to success in any person’s life is to always take your people up with you. 

 

And here I was now starting to realize my purpose in life. I started to focus more on doing good for my people than focusing on the business. Through the foundation, I have managed to help so many people who wouldn’t be able to help themselves. Now everything has changed. From being a businessman to a social entrepreneur. The first question I ask myself in the morning NOW is: Which person am I going to put a smile on their face today. 

While many Companies start their CSI initiatives when they have millions, I realized that giving back to the community is not about how much you have in the Bank, but how much you have to give from your heart. Social Entrepreneurship is the future. Young people need to use their Entrepreneurship skills to change the situations in their communities.

 

I go around high schools motivating young learners about different life challenges and how to overcome them. I grew up in abject poverty too but that never stopped me from doing great things all of my life. Many young people in let their background define their future. Everything happens for a reason and in most cases a Good Reason. I am also busy going to Hospital’s children’s wards and see what my company can do partnering with other big companies. Many Children’s wards in hospitals are not in a good state. And we try to organize for the walls to be painted, for toys and food to be donated. I have great love for children. And hence over the past 4 years I have helped over 60 community crèches in rural areas obtain external funding. I go into these centers and assist them with administration and help them put their houses in order in terms of financial management. 

I am a firm believer that I belong to my community. And if indeed one day God blesses me with wealth I don’t want to use my wealth to feed my ego, but to feed the hungry. It takes a village to raise a child, but it can take one bad parent to destroy a child. And hence we must do all we can to protect our children. Nelson Mandela had a great love for children and the best way we can remember him is to use the little that we have to help vulnerable children.

 

My company is still doing well with 10 subsidiaries. I am now also the General Secretary at Hlanganani Community Radio.

My Advice is: If things don’t go your way, go their way. I have found my purpose in life. I have successfully evolved from helping clients to helping the poor.

Do It Now!

Things you’re always going to do later never do get done. What you put off until someday will always be out of your reach.

If anything is important enough to do someday, then it is worth starting on right now. If you’re going to actually do it, then you must do it in the moment you’re in.

Procrastination may seem like an easy way to avoid taking action. What it really is, though, is an ever-increasing burden of guilt and regret that you place on yourself.

Think of how awful it feels to know that you could have done, or could be doing, but instead you waited until too late. Fortunately, there is a simple and highly effective way to ease that burden.

Take action now. Choose something that you have continued putting off, and go ahead and get it done.

You’ve made many great plans and promises. Go ahead, act on them, and see how great it is to make them real.

Expectation Manifests In Our Thought Process

There is no secret that all of us want to be successful, but when we compare our actions with those that are already successful, we find a vast difference between what they do on a daily basis and what we do...

 

ALL successful people in the world will tell you that in order to achieve success in this world, you first have to achieve it in the mind and to achieve success in the mind means letting all that you desire to consume your thought process all the time.

 

Once we have mastered the thought process of successful people, then we are going to start talking like them and speaking success over our lives. The power of our thoughts makes our words even more powerful because the minute we begin to say something, it means that we have thought about it long enough to believe it.

 

Faith in our words leads us to act, but it is not enough to act when we feel like it, we need to do it over and over again until the point where we no longer think about it but we just do it. Once we have reached this point in our lives, success is no longer what we think, what we say or what we do, it becomes who we are.

 

What we need to learn today is that, we cannot expect to be successful if we don’t think like successful people, because only once we start thinking like them, will we be able to talk like them which will go a long way to us beginning to walk that talk. 

 

As the saying goes: “Watch your thoughts, for they become words.  Watch your words, for they become actions.  Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”  

Keeping it real with

Rori Matsetela

 

Self Esteem - Bertha Dlamini

Your self-esteem is your currency – understand what devalues it and what builds it! 

"People with high self-esteem are the most desired, and desirable people in society." Brian Tracy

Some tips to help you build and enduring self-esteem.

1. Create a compelling vision of yourself. 

2. Work on yourself

3. Don’t be too hard; but be hard enough to push yourself

4. Exercise Self Discipline

5. Understand what integrity means to you

6. Deal with your past – confront it and deal with it

7. Forgive yourself and forgive others

8. You are unique and the world deserves your magic; show up!

9. Count yourself among the stars – believe it; live it; and become a star

10. Stop comparing yourself with others – build your brand and be the advocate!

Finally; befriend failure; it will lead you to success! The greatest leaders failed so many times; but they did not quit; they learned and pursued their dreams!

Go out and show off!

Bertha Dlamini

Managing Director, EON Consulting (Pty) Ltd

Building Long Lasting Networks

Networking is daunting. However it is the most important skill in business and life in general. Building networks takes time, and it requires patience. Building quality relationships takes time! Focus on building good; reliable relationships, that you will cherish for a life time.

Four things to consider

1. Trust

Deliver your service with integrity consistently. Prove that you are reliable and you are completely interested in your client’s satisfaction with your service. This will earn your trust, an important foundation for your relationship with your clients.

 

2. Reciprocity

Every networking encounter should bring value to both parties. Do not waste your time and do not waste other people’s time either. Be clear with the exchange of value and be confident.

 

3.Time 

Time is money, use it wisely. Select your networking opportunities carefully. Have clear goals and ensure that you achieve them. If an event does not yield the desired result do not repeat the experience. 

4. Respect

Respect the relationships you have built. Meaning continuously deliver the value you promised during your first encounter. Only share a contact if it is an extension of the value you promised to deliver.

Make networking a way of life and not an occasion. Invest time in planning it and selecting your networking opportunities. Be brave; be confident and be worth it.

Bertha Dlamini

Managing Director, EON Consulting (Pty) Ltd